low是一个雅思常考词汇，这个词的常用解释为a. 低， 矮； 低级的， 下层的， 卑贱的； 低声的，这个词在很多英文原版小说中怎么应用呢，今天小编就带您了解一下。
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《圣诞颂歌》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- He carried his own low temperature al-ways about with him; he iced his office in the dogdays; and didn't thaw it one degree at Christmas.
-- It was a very low fire indeed; nothing on such a bitter night.
-- Scrooge's countenance fell almost as low as the Ghost's had done.
-- Is it not enough that you are one of those whose passions made this cap, and force me through whole trains of years to wear it low upon my brow.'
-- It was a remarkable quality of the Ghost (which Scrooge had observed at the baker's), that notwithstanding his gigantic size, he could accommodate himself to any place with ease; and that he stood beneath a low roof quite as gracefully and like a supernatural creature, as it was possible he could have done in any lofty hall.
在查尔斯·狄更斯的《双城记》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- said the other, in the same low voice.
-- This dialogue had been held in so very low a whisper, that not a word of it had reached the young lady's ears.
-- Yet, work of that kind was being done in the gar-ret; for, with his back towards the door, and his face towards the window where the keeper of the wine-shop stood look-ing at him, a white-haired man sat on a low bench, stooping forward and very busy, making shoes.
-- said Monsieur Defarge, looking down at 'Gthe white head that bent low over the shoemaking.
-- But she sat perfectly still in his grasp, and only said, in a low voice, 'I entreat you, good gentlemen, do not come near us, do not speak, do not move!'
在汉斯·克里斯蒂安·安徒生的《安徒生童话》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- The lake was not frozen sufficiently to bear her; neither was it open, nor low enough that she could wade through it; and across it she must go if she would find her child!Then she lay down to drink up the lake, and that was an impossibility for a human being, but the afflicted mother thought that a miracle might happen nevertheless.
在列夫·托尔斯泰的《安娜·卡列尼娜》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- But Levin was in love, and so it seemed to him that Kitty was so perfect in every respect that she was a creature far above everything earthly; and that he was a creature so low and so earthly that it could not even be conceived that other people and she herself could regard him as worthy of her.
-- A few instants later the platform was quivering, and with puffs of steam hanging low in the air from the frost, the engine rolled up, with the lever of the middle wheel rhythmically moving up and down, and the stooping figure of the engine- driver covered with frost.
-- She went to the furthest end of the little drawing room and sank into a low chair.
-- Secondly, he would never again let himself give way to low passion, the memory of which had so tortured him when he had been making up his mind to make an offer.
-- said the prince gloomily, getting up from his low chair, and seeming anxious to get away, yet stopping in the doorway.
在儒勒·凡尔纳的《八十天环游地球》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- "It was once," said Phileas Fogg, in a low tone.
-- He slipped more cautiously than ever through the brush, followed by his companions; the silence around was only broken by the low murmuring of the wind among the branches.
-- At last he said in a low voice to Mr. Fogg, "Shall I speak out to your honour?"
-- He found himself at first in a thoroughly European quarter, the houses having low fronts, and being adorned with verandas, beneath which he caught glimpses of neat peristyles.
-- It had run several miles, when, the fire becoming low for want of fuel, the steam had slackened; and it had finally stopped an hour after, some twenty miles beyond Fort Kearney.
在辛克莱·刘易斯的《阿罗史密斯》里，有这样的句子出现：
-- Digamma Pi was a lively boarding-house with a billiard table and low prices.
-- By any canon of respectable behavior he should have felt like a low dog; he assured himself that he must feel like a low dog; but he could not bring it off.
-- He had finally succeeded very well indeed in feeling like a low dog.
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